Brandon Butler | Trainer
ISSA CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINER, RED CROSS CPR/AED CERTIFIED Specializes: Sport specific training, speed and agility training, core strength training balance coordination, and weigh reduction. As a former college and professional athlete, Brandon understands the dedication and motivation it takes to achieve your greatest fitness potential.
Brandon’s football career consists of four years at the collegiate level at Mississippi State University and Delta State University and two years of Professional Football in the AFL (Arena Football League) & NIFL (National Indoor Football League. He is also a youth athletic development trainer and he has conducted several successful bootcamps and seminars.
His passion for fitness is correlative to the successful trainers and strength and conditioning coaches he has worked with. They include Tom Shaw Professional Speed/Agility and conditioning expert and founder of Sparq equipment and apparel, NFL Superbowl QB’s PEYTON & Eli Manning as both student and trainer at the Manning Passing Academy. Brandon encourages that making fitness a high priority in your life will have a positive affect on all other areas of your life.
Brandon’s unique approach to training allows individuals with little to zero fitness experience to quickly gain confidence in their pursuit and those who are more advanced to achieve the results they so desire. He believes that pursuing one’s fitness goals should be exciting and productive.
Brandon is excellent at creating a fun motivating atmosphere while conducting dynamic result achieving workouts. He combines traditional exercises with new innovative ones to create muscle confusion which decrease the possibility of the plateau effect during your program.
Melody E. Jones | Trainer
Level One Qigong Instructor (Teaching energy work and healing foods), Certified BNRI and AFAA personal trainer Specialty Areas: Hatha, Iyengar, Vinyasa and Meditative Yoga, Pilates, Mat Science, Kickboxing
Melody has been physically active all her life, and for seventeen years, has continued her education in health and fitness.
Known for altering the motto: “What you put in is what you get” to “Now that you’re here you’re gonna get it”, she started running boot camps in 2001 after becoming a fitness instructor and certified personal trainer. Immediately you can witness her love and dedication for it.
She’s pleasantly challenging, passionate, and her training style combines all of her past experiences to help her clients achieve their fitness goals.
Lloyd Garden | Owner & Personal Trainer
NCCPT, IFPA, TRX Suspension Training and Red Cross CPR certified
Lloyd Garden, founder of Thrive Fitness is no stranger to discipline and perseverance. Trained by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches collegiately and professionally, Lloyd understands hard work and the attention to detail. Through this hard work and his attention to detail, Lloyd gained the experience needed to customize efficient training programs for all types of clients, from professional athletes to busy executives and stay-at-home moms, who need maximal fitness in minimal spare time.
Lloyd is no stranger to high achievement. Starting from high school, he set football rushing records in the state of Ohio that exists today. After high school, he was heavily recruited by top NCAA football programs but eventually decided to attend the University of Cincinnati and he received a four year scholarship to play for the Bearcats Football team. To cap off his football career, he was signed by the National Football League Seattle Seahawks. Even though his NFL career was short he obtained the necessary ingredients to complete his unique personal training recipe.
Lloyd used his time as a member of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats and the NFL Seattle Seahawks for his own research and development to tie his knowledge of personal training and athletic conditioning to develop advanced methods to training to help prevent injury and target specific muscles. Lloyd created a full fitness regime from his template of free-weight, bodyweight, and machine-driven exercises, tailored specifically for each client. His main goal is to develop muscular balance in his clients, which is the foundation for more specific goals such as aesthetics, strength and flexibility gains, or developing a more powerful athletic ability.
His methods have touched people of all backgrounds. For more than a decade, he has used his knowledge and experience to develop the bodies and lives of hundreds including Stanford University’s All-American tennis players “The Burdette Sisters” (Erin, Lindsey, and Mallory Burdette), ATP World Tour player Scoville “Sco” Jenkins, and On the Rise Tennis Academy where he helped hundreds of students reach their full potential in the sport of tennis through strength and conditioning.
Lloyd’s philosophy is that when people begin to work towards better health and fitness, they inevitably begin to see more success in life. He designed his personal training studio with his philosophy in mind. The Thrive Fitness studio is strategically designed to provide clients with the most efficient method to accomplish their workouts.
